Heavy rains in South Korea have killed at least four people and forced over 1,300 to evacuate. Three people were found dead Thursday in a submerged car, a stream, and a flooded basement.

S. Korean chemical giant OCI Holdings said that subsidiary OCI TerraSus and Japan's Tokuyama would build a semiconductor-grade polysilicon factory in Malaysia.

Four people died and more than 1,000 have been evacuated in South Korea after the country was lashed by torrential rain on Thursday, the safety ministry said.

Heavy rain in South Korea has led to the deaths of at least four people and the evacuation of 1,300 others, officials confirmed on Thursday. One person tragically died in Osan, just south of Seoul, on Wednesday when their car was engulfed by soil and concrete after a retaining wall of an overpass collapsed during the heavy rain,

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has ordered the setting up of a new investigation team, involving police and prosecutors, to look into the deadly Halloween crowd crush that killed 159, mostly young people,

South Korea is seeking to redirect household wealth concentrated in real estate into equities, according to a lawmaker spearheading a committee tasked with supercharging the nation’s stock market.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Two people died and more than 1,000 have been evacuated in South Korea after the country was lashed by torrential rain on Thursday, the safety ministry said.

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the country’s defense minister said Tuesday.

Trump must be careful about pressuring Seoul, or his administration could push Lee Jae-myung to move South Korea closer to China.